Sunday, December 18, 2011

Cherie Blair has taken time out of her busy international schedule to meet an unknown Mexican footballer to help boost her son’s sports agency business.

Cherie Blair (L) - Nicky (C) - Raul Mendolia (R)

Reportedly, a car collected 17-year-old soccer prodigy Raul Mendiola from his family’s rundown trailer-park home in a Spanish-speaking suburb of Los Angeles and took him to the plush hotel where the wife of the ex-Prime Minister was staying.

Mrs Blair – who is a director of her son Nicky’s football agency, to which Raul is signed – spent time chatting to the footballer before posing for a photograph with the bemused youngster.

Just days later, in an apparent attempt to cement confidence in her son’s business, Raul’s mother Claudia Velador received a picture of a smartly dressed Mr and Mrs Blair, personally signed with the words ‘Thank you’.